Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 117 1965 Number 3511 



BENTHIC POLYCHAETOUS ANNELIDS 

 FROM BERING, CHUKCHI, AND BEAUFORT SEAS^ 



By Donald J. Reish' 



Introduction 



The earlier accounts on the study of the polychaetous annelids in 

 Alaskan waters have been summarized by Hartman (1948). Since 

 this date, several papers dealing with the polychaetes of Alaska or 

 adjoining regions have appeared. Pettibone (1954) recorded 88 

 species from Point Barrow, Alaska. The monograph by Uschakov 

 (1955) of the polychaetes of the Far Eastern seas is of particular value 

 for work in Alaskan waters. The series of papers by Berkeley and 

 Berkeley (1956, 1957, 1958, and 1960) have records of species for 

 Alaska as well as British Columbia. Pelagic and benthic polychaetes 

 collected from floating ice islands in the Arctic Ocean have been 

 reported by Uschakov (1957) and Knox (1959). Levenstein (1960) 

 listed 48 species from the western Bering Sea, 19 of which are reported 

 herein. Seven species of polychaetes were found in a marine pond at 

 Point Barrow, Alaska (Mohr et al, 1961). 



* These studies were aided in part by contracts between the Office of Naval 

 Research, Department of the Navy, and the University of Southern California; 

 and between Dr. John L. Mohr, University of Southern California, and the Arctic 

 Institute of North America. 



* Department of Biology, Long Beach State College, Long Beach, California. 



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